Uninteresting to who? His five fights immediately preceding his challenge of Tunney were all big draws with large gates for the era. Almost all of...
Again, Rickard was the one who was holding the purse strings. Not Tunney. Sharkey losing controversially to Dempsey allowed Dempsey to get a shot...
You said yourself, Tunney didnt choose Heeney, Rickard did. Criticizing Tunney for facing the man the promoter was willing to pay him to fight...
Lol at Holyfields headbutts being everyone elses fault because he was just standing his ground. Thats like saying this serial cheater didnt use...
Pot calling the kettle black there. Heres an old clown who by his own admission has seen Bouttier fight four times, three of those were clear...
So by your reckoning no clubfighter has ever fought nationally, been a rated contender, etc? Because hundreds of clubfighters would disagree....
Im a little surprised that a supposed life long boxing fan has to ask for the definition of a club fighter. Club fighters were/are regional...
When he gets those ratings by virtue of more than one utter robbery then I couldnt care less what he was rated. If winning maybe, MAYBE 5 of 27...
No he wasnt. He was stripped in 1972 for refusing to defend. He won it back nearly two years later by beating Calcabrini for the title. Calcabrini...
Yeah, I know, I also find it better to be less informed on a subject when I go into a debate about it as well. Ignorance is bliss as they say.
Whats unhinged? You said he beat Hayward, DeLima, and Sterling as proof he was significantly better than a clubfighter. I pointed out that he...
He didnt beat Hayward any more than he beat Griffith and it took him three tries to beat DeLima and that one victory came when DeLima was 3-3 in...
I didnt know he was a subpar fighter until I had watched a lot of his fights. I dont have the ability of some here to determine his greatness...
Or maybe Im just a boxing fan who enjoys watching fights. You gonna answer my question as to why asking what fights someone has seen to inform...
Asking what fights someone has seen of a fighter to judge how informed their opinion is is vitriol?
